English Stage 2 Focus outcomes
Learning About Reading — Context and Text
RS2.7 Discusses how writers relate to their readers in different ways, how they create a variety of worlds through language and how they use language to achieve a wide range of purposes.
Purpose
- recognises how different literary texts are organised according to their purpose.
Audience
- distinguishes between fact and fiction.
Responding to Texts
- makes general statements about how visual texts such as diagrams, tables and illustrations enhance or detract from meaning
- offers an opinion about a story or aspects of it.
Learning About Reading — Language structures and Features
RS2.8 Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and the grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types.
Text Structure
- recognises cohesive links in a text.
Grammar
- recognises the subject of a clause or simple sentence and the verb to which it is connected
- identifies evaluative language in texts and discusses the effects of such language.
Text Language
- identifies conventions of electronic texts, eg hyperlinking.
Learning to write – Producing texts
WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well-structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features.
Joint and Independent writing
- understands and creates notes for relevant writing purposes
- contributes to joint text construction activities.
Audience
- writes for chosen audience.
Subject matter
- selects relevant information to use in own writing
- writes on both familiar and researched topics.
Channel of communication
- interacts with others using blogs.
Learning to Write – Skills and strategies
WS2.12 Uses joined letters when writing in NSW Foundation Style and demonstrates basic desktop publishing skills on the computer.
Using computers
- communicates with others using computer technology
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